Combined bottle-cap and cork-puller.



No. 811,113. PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

VR. 0. WILSUN.

COMBINED BOTTLE GAP AND GORK PULLER. APPLICATION FILED MAJLQ. 1905.

WITNESSES: M/VE/VTOR ATES Parana orrion.

COMBINED BOTTLE-CAP AND CORK-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed March 9, 1905. Serial No. 249.287.

T0 6t whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT CUMMING WIL- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Athens, in the county of Clarke and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Bottle- (lap and Cork-Puller, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to bottle stoppers comprising a sheet-metal cap removably secured on the upper end of a bottle-neck and a cork driven into the bottle-mouth so as to be engaged by teeth carried by the cap and be held against removal independent of the cap and it consists in the advantageous specific construction hereinafter described, and par ticularly defined in the claims appended.

In the accompanying drawings, constituting part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a bottle bearing my improvements; Fig. 2, an enlarged diametrical section of the same, and Fig. 3 an enlarged inverted perspectiveview of the cap removed.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views of the drawmgs.

The bottle comprised in my improvements is provided at the upper end of its neck with an outwardly-extending flange g, and on the perimeter of this flange is a horizontal endless rib g, as contradistinguished from a thread.

The sheet-metal cap of my stopper is made up of an annular horizontal portion adapted to rest above the flange g, Fig. 2, teeth 0, eX- tending downwardly and inwardly from-the inner edge of the annular portion, and a flange f, depending from the outer edge of said portion and provided at an intermediate point in its height with a horizontal endless swell h, snugly receiving the rib g of the bottle. Carri ed by the cap is an annulus e, of cork or other compressible material, which isdesigned to rest between the horizontal portion of the cap and the upper side of the bottle-flange g, Fig. 2, with a view of preventing air finding its way between the cap and said flange 9 into the bottle. After the sheet-metal cap is applied to the bottleneck and secured by pressing the flange f into swell form (indicated by h) over the rib g,. a cork d is driven down through the opening I) of the cap and into the mouth of the bottle until its upper end is flush with the upper side of the cap. A disk i for excluding dust and bearing advertising matter is then secured on the cap, as shown.

When the parts are assembled, as stated, it will be apparent that the bottle will be hermetically sealed, that because of the teeth 0 the cork cannot be removed independent of the cap, and that there is no liability of the cap being casually displaced. When, however, it is desired to detach the cap, the same may be readily accomplished by introducing a knifeblade or other instrument between the lower edge of the cap-flange and the bottle and prying the swell it out of engagement with the rib g.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that by virtue of the specific means described-at. 6., the horizontal endless rib g on the flange g and the horizontal endless swell h of the flange f for securely fastening the cap on the bottle-the cap may be made of but a minimum amount of sheet metal, which obviously contributes to the cheapness of the stopper as a whole.

Having described my invention, claim is- I. In a bottlestopper, the combination of a bottle-neck having an outwardly-extending horizontal flange at its upper end and also having a horizontal, endless rib on the perimeter of said flange, a sheet-metal cap having an annular horizontal portion disposed above the flange of the bottle, teeth extending downwardly and inwardly from the inner edge of said portion and a flange depending from the outer edge of said portion and provided with a horizontal, endless swell snugly receiving the rib on the bottle-flange, and a cork resting in the bottle-neck and the cap and engaged by the teeth of the latter.

2. In a combined bottle-stopper and corkuller, the combination of a cap the top of which is slitted radially to form teeth through which a cork is forced, the points of the teeth what I bending downward and biting into the cork closes the top of said cap and overlies said to prevent its removal independent of the cork to exclude dust and air.

cap; said cap havin a cylindrical wall depending from its said top, said wall being ROBERT OUMMING WILSON 5 formed with ahorizontal circumferential end- Witnesses:

less swell adapted to engage a rib upon a bot- H. H. HINTON,

tle and a fermeture comprising a disk which J NO. WV. GALLAWAY. 

